As with any trip of any sort in June - even one to the outer reaches of the Solar System - one must assume it will rain. Having booked the tickets and stopped the milk and papers, the fun and games really start with the weather forecast. Firstly, the long term prediction from the BBC is good for a good laugh. The Beeb used to employ the Met Office (the weather arm of the police) to provide its fancy maps and squiggles but austerity measures and the failure of the Met to spot a hurricane heading this way forced to the BBC to look elsewhere for its weather predictions. The BBC asked Blue Peter viewers to send in what they think the weather is going to be instead - and draw pictures of mist, for example. So, ignore the BBC - they are only any good at telling you what yesterday's weather was. MSN weather, Accuweather and Weather Underground are reliable, but hedge their bets up to a couple of days before. MSN seem to nail it in the short term: shower at 12.47.
For the 12th - 15th of Glorious June we were heading into a couple of wet days and dry nights and a sunny finale.
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